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...This poppycock is acted with such dash and ingratiating crudness that the show proves a succession of highly amusing situations productive of constant laughter. Teddy Hart, Jean Casto, Hume Cronyn and Betty Field stand out in a cast which is admirably fitted, physically and vocally for the strenuous activities of "Three Men on a Horse." It's the McCoy...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 11/8/1935 | See Source »

...five came from Soviet Russia's Hermitage Museum (TIME, March 4). "The Hermitage," drawled Lord Duveen last week, "is no longer a great collection. It has gone to pieces because of Mellon's purchases." This was poppycock, in the opinion of most critics, who believe that the Hermitage was able easily to spare Mellon's $3,247,695 worth with the sole exception of the Perugino, which cost the least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Duveen to the Rescue | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...Poppycock & Pollywogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1935 | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

Coughlin has been blowing off a lot of poppycock for the past two years and so far no one has questioned his mental fitness to ponder such matters, let alone broadcast his views...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1935 | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

...educational trend, it is only another queasy kow-tow to the Oxford-Cambridge reliquary of worm-holed 16th century poppycock. Some judgment should be employed even in boot-licking. It is to be hoped that President Conant will curb the P. T. Barnum tendencies of the Department before any New York vaudeville engagements are made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEAR-BAITING | 2/23/1934 | See Source »

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